Testing station at Rugby consists of two main buildings, with rail and road approaches; larger building comprises test house, adjacent preparation shed, coal bunker annex, and foreman's office and messroom; smaller building houses administrative offices and chemical laboratory; testing plant consists of seven pairs of rollers which support locomotive; each of rollers is coupled to Froude hydraulic brake; capacity of plant rated at 4500 hp.


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    Title :

    British railways locomotive test plant


    Additional title:

    Ry Age


    Contributors:

    Published in:

    Railway Age ; 127 , n 17


    Publication date :

    1949


    Size :

    4 pages


    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English


    Keywords :


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